PTC/USER Global Summit 2026 - Full Agenda Released!
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We’re excited to invite the PTC/USER community to join us in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel & Casino, April 27–30, for our biggest Summit experience yet.
This year’s theme, Spotlight on Digital Transformation, reflects the rapid changes happening across engineering, manufacturing, and product development—changes being driven directly by Users, Experts, and teams like yours.
We have released the full agenda and it’s shaping up to be an outstanding Summit filled with valuable insights, practical learning, and meaningful connections.
We can’t wait to welcome you to Las Vegas this spring. Register today!
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Secure Your Spot: The Global Summit Room Block Ends April 7th!
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Global Summit 2026 will take place April 27–30 at the iconic Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Located just one block off the Strip, the Rio combines newly renovated 580-square-foot suites with a full-service convention center that offers direct access to all event spaces, making it easy to move from sessions to networking to downtime without ever leaving the property. With diverse dining options, a lively casino, Starbucks on-site, and a 3-acre pool complex reopening in Spring 2026, everything you need is right at your fingertips.
From early-morning coffee to late-night bites, convenient parking to comfortable suites, the Rio is designed to make your Summit experience seamless and enjoyable. Be sure to reserve your room now! Our discounted room block is available only until April 7th, and rooms are filling quickly. Secure your stay now and be at the center of the Global Summit experience.
As a reminder: Our discounted Global Summit room block is only available through April 7, and availability is limited. Rooms are filling quickly as the deadline approaches. Please also note that while you may find lower room rates through third-party websites, there are two hotel towers—one that has been recently remodeled and one that has not.
Rooms booked through our official reservation portal are guaranteed to be in the remodeled tower. If you choose to reserve outside of our portal, we cannot guarantee placement in the remodeled tower, nor will we be able to assist with any room-related requests or issues.
We appreciate your understanding and recommend booking through our official link to ensure the best experience.
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PTC/USER Global Summit 2026 Room Monitor/Host Opportunity
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This opportunity is open to all current PTC customers. If selected, you’ll be able to attend the conference at a discounted rate of just $500 ($900 with training). We are looking for approximately 12–14 hosts.
Participants are expected to attend the conference from Monday evening (April 27) through Thursday afternoon (April 30). Responsibilities will include helping facilitate speaker transitions, along with supporting other event activities throughout the conference.
Also, as a special thank you, you will receive a new limited edition PTC/USER jacket.
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Room selection will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Follow Us on Social Media for the Most Current Updates on the PTC/USER Global Summit
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The easiest way to stay connected to everything happening around the PTC/USER Global Summit is through our social media channels.
Follow us for the latest updates, including upcoming sessions, speaker highlights, trainer spotlights, sponsor features, registration reminders, and glimpses into the full Summit experience. You’ll also see behind-the-scenes moments, community highlights, and content designed to help you make the most of your time at the event.
Follow PTC/USER on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and X to stay informed and inspired as the Summit comes together.
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CAD/Windchill Admin Roundtable Hosted by Badgerland UG - Friday, April 17th, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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Join for 5 min or the whole hour. Ask/answer questions of people in similar Admin roles. Badgerland UG is moderator, but all are welcome.
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Bridging the Gap from AI Pilots to Enterprise Deployment - Wednesday, April 22nd, 11:00 AM EST
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Most AI pilots look promising in a sandbox—but they struggle to scale across the digital thread and into real engineering, manufacturing, and service workflows.
For PTC users, the challenge isn’t building AI models—it’s connecting data across systems, governing outputs, and enabling AI to support the full product lifecycle in a trusted, operational way.
On April 22 at 11 AM ET, join us for VisionCast, ChapsVision’s virtual launch event, where we’re introducing ChapsAgents, a new enterprise agentic AI platform designed to help organizations build, govern, and scale AI agents across real business processes.
What you’ll learn:
- How to move beyond isolated AI pilots and into production-ready deployments
- Ways to connect and activate knowledge across engineering, manufacturing, and service systems
- How agentic AI can support real workflows across the digital thread
- What it takes to deploy AI with governance, security, and control built in
Stop experimenting in silos. Start deploying AI that works across your enterprise.
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Webcast: How Philips Streamlines Product Configurations Across the Lifecycle with PTC & Configit - Thursday, April 23rd, 10:00 AM EST
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Managing complex product configurations and variants across the lifecycle is a growing challenge for B2B manufacturers.
In this webcast, Philips shares how they addressed configuration complexity by establishing one backbone and one source of truth across their product lifecycle. Learn how a Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) approach combined with PTC Windchill connects engineering, sales, and operations bringing greater transparency, alignment, and control to product variability.
Join experts from Philips, PTC, and Configit to hear practical insights from a real-world transformation and discover how end-to-end control of product configurations and variants can avoid errors and streamline the path from engineering to delivery.
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PTC/USER Badgerland UG In Person Event - Thursday, May 15th, 8:15 AM – 3:00 PM CST
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Join the Baderland USER Group for their early in person meeting
Lunch will be provided for all attendees!
Lin to the current agenda HERE.
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Here's 250 more reasons to join IQNOX at PTC/USER Global Summit 2026
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We’re excited to be at the PTC/USER Global Summit in Las Vegas this year. If you’re planning to attend, you can save $250 on registration with code IQNO26. If you’ll be there, come find us at Booth 55.
We’ll also be presenting on April 28 from 5:00–6:00 PM in Miranda 1, where we’ll be sharing “IQNECT: The Intelligent Evolution of Unified Engineering.” In this session, we’ll explore how IQNECT transforms the way engineering teams understand their product ecosystem by unifying requirements from Codebeamer and product structures from Windchill into a single, intelligent view. By revealing relationships between requirements and parts in one view, IQNECT empowers teams with clearer insight, faster decisions, and a more connected approach to modern product development.
Beyond IQNECT, we’re looking forward to connecting with teams around broader initiatives across ALM, PLM, and IoT. At IQNOX, we partner with organizations in regulated industries to modernize systems, improve traceability, and ensure compliance, without slowing down development. Whether it’s implementation, integration, or long-term strategy, our goal is to help teams scale with confidence.
Learn more about who we are: https://iqnox.com
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Digital Thread Integration Optimized for PTC
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Missed the live session? The takeaway is what matters.
As a Platinum Sponsor of the PTC/USER Global Summit 2026, PROSTEP is focused on one priority: enabling PTC environments to operate as part of a scalable, multi-vendor Digital Thread.
In complex engineering landscapes, integration is the foundation for execution.
As part of the CIMdata-administered Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) benchmark, PROSTEP demonstrated real-world Digital Thread use cases evaluated against independent criteria for integration, traceability, and system interoperability.
In the session, we walk through how organizations are:
- Connecting engineering solutions across PLM, ALM, ERP, and MBSE ecosystems
- Establishing governed Digital Thread continuity across domains
- Enabling cross-system traceability to support Digital Twin initiatives
- Modernizing legacy environments without disrupting operations
▶ Watch the on-demand session: https://youtu.be/BblX9a7wxRo?si=bLg_7Dorga3LERE4
If you’re attending PTC/USER Global Summit 2026, meet with PROSTEP to discuss:
- Integration strategy across PTC and non-PTC systems
- Supplier collaboration and secure data exchange
- Migration and modernization initiatives
- Scalable Digital Thread implementation
Learn more: https://info.prostep.com/event-ptc-global-summit-2026/
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PLM is no longer just an engineering tool. It’s the backbone of digital transformation across manufacturing
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Our “Manufacturer’s Guide to PLM Best Practices” outlines practical PLM best practices to eliminate data silos, reduce compliance risk, and streamline change. In this guide, you’ll learn the PLM practices manufacturers use to maximize value, from establishing a single source of truth to integrating PLM across the enterprise. Use it to benchmark your current approach, identify gaps, and plan next steps for scalable, modern PLM.
https://on.eacpds.com/manufacturers-guide-to-plm
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Automate design rule checks with bananaz AI
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The team at bananaz AI just rolled out a major upgrade to its Design Checks feature, introducing a new UI that lets you easily manage your company's design rules.
You can add, remove, enable, or disable rules with just a few clicks, giving engineering teams full control over what gets validated.
Every design is then automatically verified against these rules before moving forward, helping teams catch issues early and maintain consistency.
Design Checks also captures critical engineering knowledge, preserving decisions, validations, and design context, so your organization builds a scalable knowledge base instead of relying on tribal expertise.
Book a demo to see it live below.
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Webinar | Automated Cost & DFM Intelligence / Watch the Replay
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Those who don’t leverage manufacturing intelligence solutions get left behind. In today's competitive, challenging landscape, every minute and every dollar counts in getting products to market quickly, while still ensuring a profit.
Learn how integrating aPriori with your PLM or other business systems automates critical design for manufacturability (DFM) and should costing analysis. This highly informative session empowers:
Engineering Teams
Discover how aPriori provides instant, actionable feedback to optimize designs for production and accelerates the product development process.
Procurement Teams
Enhance supplier collaboration and negotiation with a transparent, data-driven foundation that enables procurement to understand a product’s true cost drivers. Not only will you meet cost targets, but you’ll also likely expand your profit margins as we’ve seen with customers time and time again.
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Seamless Electrical Installation with uKonnX + Windchill
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Electrical installation is often time-consuming and error-prone with paper-based instructions—driving rework, troubleshooting, and cost. At the PTC/USER Global Summit in Las Vegas, we will share an approach to seamless electrical installation that links design data to real-world execution. uKonnX guides workers step by step through Scan / Install / Document, while Windchill provides the mechatronic product definition and enables feedback from the shop floor. The result is accurate documentation, improved traceability, and the foundation for a true Digital Twin across the lifecycle.
Join us in Las Vegas to explore how to reduce complexity and improve audit readiness.
#PTCUSER #Windchill #PLM #DigitalTwin #AsBuilt #Traceability #Shopfloor #IndustrialAutomation
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How Schaeffler Built Its Digital Thread - A Story of Transformation
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How to simplify complex processes in a global organization? The Schaeffler Group case
In today’s world of advanced manufacturing and engineering, scale is both a huge opportunity… and a significant challenge. How do you effectively manage data, processes, and collaboration across teams spread around the globe?
Schaeffler Group – one of the world’s largest family-owned technology companies, operating in over 55 countries – faced exactly this challenge.
Together with Transition Technologies PSC, they developed a solution that:
- integrates data from multiple systems (SAP, PLM)
- eliminates manual data transfers
- increases transparency across order and project processes
- enhances collaboration between sales, engineering, and logistics
The result? A unified, digital process for managing orders – from the first customer interaction all the way to production and delivery.
This is a powerful example of how technology can truly support operational transformation in large organizations - reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and accelerating product development.
👉 Discover how this transformation was achieved step by step:
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Seamless Event-Based Data Transfer with CoreFace
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Only 3 weeks to go – we’re packing our bags and excited to meet the PTC community in Las Vegas! 🎉
Here’s a short video showing what we’re bringing along: CoreFace - PTC/User Global Summit 2026
Join our presentation or stop by our booth to experience a live demo of Windchill+ – ERP integration via CoreFace.
See you in Las Vegas! ✈️
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Your Windchill Implementation Went Live. So Why Isn't It Working?
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Across manufacturing organizations of every size, we're seeing the same pattern: Windchill is deployed, the project is technically "complete," and yet adoption is declining. Departments revert to spreadsheets. Leadership questions the investment. Sound familiar?
The root cause is almost never technical.
In most cases, the system works fine — but engineering, manufacturing, and IT each use it differently, nobody owns process governance, and the organizational alignment that makes PLM valuable was never put in place.
Element Consulting specializes in exactly this problem. We call it the translation layer — making sure departments agree on what data means when it crosses system boundaries, and building the process foundation that turns a technically successful deployment into one that actually delivers ROI.
Across our client base, we've seen adoption jump from 35% to 80%+ in as little as four months — not by re-implementing the technology, but by realigning how teams use it.
If your organization has a Windchill environment that's underperforming, or an implementation that stalled somewhere between go-live and full adoption, stop by booth #49 at the Summit. We're happy to talk through what we're seeing and whether a similar approach could work for your team.
Join us at the PTC/USER Summit in April!
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Better Products Through Mechanical Variation Management
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The result? Improved profitability across the entire enterprise.
Mechanical variation is inevitable. However, reactively addressing mechanical variation issues leads to additional costs, lowering overall profitability. Not addressing mechanical variation issues when they’re detected or completely missing them altogether lowers product quality and, in turn, can impact company reputation, leading to less revenue.
Proactive mechanical variation management can be a reality with Sigmetrix. Our tolerance analysis and GD&T solutions drive profitability across the product development cycle, resulting in higher quality and lower costs across a product’s entire lifespan. Our solutions help companies optimize their manufacturing processes, enabling more efficient decision making across the enterprise, which leads to notable product quality improvements without driving up costs.
This is simply the beginning of the impact Sigmetrix can have on your organization. Visit our website today at https://www.sigmetrix.com for more information on solutions, training, implementation and more!
Use our Contact Form to submit a request or simply send a direct email to one of the listed addresses and a team member will get back to you quickly!
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Altium at PTC/USER Global Summit in Las Vegas
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Come visit us at Booth 14 to see how Altium can help you incorporate electronic design data (ECAD) into your digital transformation strategy.
Electronics has evolved into the primary driver of hardware innovation, supply chain optimization, and integrated product development. As a result, ensuring the ability to easily manage and integrate your ECAD manufacturing and BOM data together with PTC Windchill—for full product definition—is key.
In addition, we can show you how a controlled, automated ECAD-MCAD collaboration methodology can streamline this process and eliminate risky, file-based transfer methods.
We also invite you to attend the presentation “The Missing Link – Building a Connected Digital Thread for Electronics Development with ECAD and PTC Windchill,” on Thursday, April 30 at 3:05 p.m. The session will be co‑presented by Linda Mazzitelli, Sr. Director, Altium Global Enterprise Technical Sales, and Ruediger Scholz of PTC.
We look forward to connecting with you in Las Vegas.
Learn how to integrate ECAD into your digital transformation strategy
https://resources.altium.com/ecad-mcad
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PTC Design Refresh: Visual Appeal & Usability Study
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PTC is exploring a new visual design theme, and we’re looking for product users to participate in a remote usability session. No specific product expertise is required. We’re simply looking for as many PTC users as possible to help us understand how the new theme looks, feels, and works in practice. Your feedback will directly shape the future design direction at PTC.
What to expect
- Remote, unmoderated usability session you can complete on your own (estimated 15 minutes to complete)
- Short introduction questions about your current position
- Hands-on usability tasks using a mock PTC user interface
- An opportunity to share feedback that will help refine the future PTC experience
Interested in participating? Click the button below to participate in our 15-minute study:
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PTC Login & Start Page Usability Study
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PTC is improving the login and Start Page experience, and we’re looking for PTC users to participate in a remote usability session. If you use Windchill, Creo, ThingWorx, Vuforia, or other PTC products, we’d love to hear from you.
What to expect
- Remote, moderated usability session with a PTC UX Researcher (~45 minutes to 1 hour)
- A short intro conversation about your current experience
- Hands-on usability tasks using updated login and Start Page flows
- An opportunity to share feedback that will help refine the future PTC experience
Interested in participating?
Click the button below to take the quick 2–3 minute survey to join the participant pool:
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